Quick Reads Initiative

Quick Reads are short books by bestselling authors and celebrities, delivered by UK charity The Reading Agency. With no more than 200 pages, they are designed to encourage adults who do not read often or find reading difficult to discover the joy of books.

Quick Reads are used as a resource for adult literacy teaching and have been used in Skills for Life and ESOL classes in colleges, community centres, libraries, prisons and workplaces. They have also been used in hospitals, stroke recovery units, dyslexia centres, care homes, family learning groups, pre-schools, organisations working with homeless people and traveller communities, and Army and RAF bases. Quick Reads provide a route into reading that prioritises great story telling and adult-focused content while ensuring the books are written in an accessible and easy to read style.

In 2018, the program was due to end because of a lack of funding. Jojo Moyes offered the group an additional three years of funding.

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